What Is The Trinity?

The trinity has always been an interest for me, which has pushed me into a lifelong quest to gain understanding into this ideal. I was first introduced to the Holy Trinity at a young age in my bible study classes; I certainly did not understand what it meant but it was a very compelling idea. The Trinity is explained in the Bible as God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus the Son. I guess what is most interesting about this explanation, is that none of these three can be experienced directly, but quite literally as a feeling, a belief, or an intuition. I am not suggesting that I can prove or disprove the existence of the Trinity as outlined in the Bible, but what I am saying is that this message may very well be allegory or written to portray a different meaning than the written words. My studies of the Bible have shown that there may several meanings of a passage in scripture: the literal meaning, the allegory, or the secret code. Jesus was portrayed to speak in parables, or to state it differently, in a hidden meaning. My understanding is the many of the early Christian writers also wrote their texts in a sort of code because they were subject to persecution for what they were preaching and teaching about. Basically, only those who were familiar with the coding could translate or understand the real meaning of the texts.

Regardless of the myriad of explanations, translations, or meanings that circulate our world…